{"product_id":"father-verses-sons","title":"Father Verses Sons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen the global pandemic forced his ninety-six-year-old father into isolation, filmmaker Ari Gold became concerned that loneliness would kill his father''s spirits. As a prolific novelist who began writing in his twenties, Herbert Gold''s incredible oeuvre included twenty-four novels, five collections of stories and essays, and eight nonfiction books. So, Ari mailed his father a poem, asking for one in return. Later, Ari''s twin brother, Ethan, also got into the game. Thus was launched a lifesaving literary correspondence, and a testament to the bonds of family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe resulting poems are playful, honest, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efunny, and moving. Secrets are invoked alongside personal—and often painful—history. Ari and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEthan’s mother, Herbert Gold’s second wife, died in a helicopter crash alongside the famous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erock promoter and impresario Bill Graham in 1991. Her ghost roams through the poems and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewonderful archival photos included in full color throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFather Verses Sons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a lushly illustrated “correspondence in poems,” ranges across the life, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efamily, and death of a remarkable father. The father and his sons write tenderly of their hunger \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor connection, about the woman that all three men have lost (a mother, a wife), and about the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epassion that all three seek. Ultimately, these poems tell a singular story of men bumbling their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eway towards love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57394516033918,"sku":"NW9781644284261","price":15.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781644284261.jpg?v=1778632143","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/father-verses-sons","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}